Tackling inequalities in Health
Policy response and action
Pam Schultz 2012
Aims
 Re-examine “inequality”
reports
for the last 30 years
 Inequalities
in 2012: English
context & policy
 What
can we do?
Socialist Health Association (link to
Black Report)
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http://www.sochealth.co.uk/public-healthand-wellbeing/poverty-and-inequality/theblack-report-1980/
Links
Ingrid Schoon: University of London
 https://www.ioe.ac.uk/study/QSSE_45.htm
l
 Kings Fund Paper for GP’s
 http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/sites/files/kf/fi
eld/field_document/health-inequalitiesgeneral-practice-gp-inquiry-researchpaper-mar11.pdf
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Links
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The Smith Institute and Childhood http://www.smithinstitute.org.uk/file/ChildhoodmentalhealthandlifechancesinpostwarBritain.
pdf
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The Whitehall Studies Summary
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http://www.workhealth.org/projects/pwhiteabs.html
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Child Poverty
http://endchildpoverty.org.uk
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http://endchildpoverty.org.uk/files/child-poverty-map-of-the-uk-partone.pdf
resources
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Cambridge Polity Press
Baggott R (2011) Socioeconomic factors and heath public chpt 16 in Public Health Policy and Politics
Commission on Social Determinants of Health CSDH (2008) Final Report: closing the gap
in a generation WHO p43
Field F (2010) The Foundation Years: preventing poor children becoming poor adults .The report of the
Independent Review on Poverty and Life Chances . HM Gov
Frontier Economics (2009) Overall costs of health inequalities. Submission to the Marmot
Review www.ucl.ac.uk/gheg/marmotreview/Documents
Graham H (2009) Understanding Health Inequalities 2nd Edition Berkshire:Open University
Press
Marmot M & Wilkinson R (2006) Social Determinants of Health 2nd Edition Oxford:Oxford University
press
Marmot M (2010) Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post 2010 . Marmot
Report available http://www.marmot-review.org.uk/